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Living Hour Announce New Album, Share New Single Featuring Jay Som

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Living Hour Announce New Album, Share New Single Featuring Jay Som

Winnipeg’s Living Hour have announced their third LP, Someday is Today. The follow-up to 2019’s Softer Faces will arrive on September 2 via Next Door Records. To accompany the announcement, Living Hour have shared the new single ‘Feelings Meeting’, which features Jay Som’s Melina Duerte, one of the album’s producers. Check it out below, along with the album’s cover art and tracklist.

Songwriter Sam Sarty explained in a statement about the track:

The song is about struggling with internal worlds, habits and daily circumstances. This is one of the first songs I wrote on bass. I play guitar, and it felt really nice to pick up a four-string instrument instead of six. I really enjoy living in lower frequencies. ‘Feelings Meeting’ was so fun to write on bass, I played around with the high G string moving with it as my own voice moved matching notes, and harmonising with it felt so easy. A familiar register.

I like playing huge bass chords in this song at the chorus. It feels powerful and LOUD when playing live! And Melina totally nailed it in making the first chorus absolutely drive itself into my bones. shaking them around and projecting the full feeling I was trying to get across in writing the song.

Duerte added: “I met Living Hour in their hometown where they opened for my partner’s band. I remember instantly connecting and hitting it off with them because they’re all so kind. Shortly after the pandemic hit and then later on in the year, they asked me to do remote production and mixing for a few songs alongside Samur Khouja (Cate Le Bon, John Grant) and Jonathan Schenke (Parquet Courts, Liars, Snail Mail). I was so stoked on ‘Feelings Meeting’ because it’s such a headbanger – it was more energetic and rocking than the material they’ve put out in the past. I had a lot of fun manipulating Sam’s vocals into a synth and adding some extra harmonies and guitars.”

Someday is Today Cover Artwork:

Someday is Today Tracklist:

1. Hold Me In Your Mind
2. Lemons And Gin
3. Middle Name
4. Feelings Meeting
5. December Forever
6. Curve
7. Hump
8. Miss Miss Miss
9. Exploding Rain
10. No Body
11. Memory Express

Unloved Announce ‘The Pink Album’, Share Video for New Song

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Unloved Announce ‘The Pink Album’, Share Video for New Song

Unloved have announced a new double LP: The Pink Album will be released on September 2 via Heavenly Recordings. The 22-track album features collaborations with Jarvis Cocker, Étienne Daho, Raven Violet, and Jon Spencer. First single ‘Mother’s been a bad girl’ comes with a music video by Julian House. Check it out below.

“In my head, ‘Mother’s been a bad girl’ is a tale of duality, searching for authenticity,” lead singer Jade Vincent explained in a statement. “It slips effortlessly from the point of view of those watching — surmising, to those judging — cheekily chanting, “Mother’s been a bad girl”! over and over, all sass, steeped in tradition, and ending in the final words of the dignified matriarch, regaining her composure, Are you truly certain you can handle me?”

Unloved’s last album was 2019’s Heartbreak.

The Pink Album Cover Artwork:

The Pink Album Tracklist:

1. Rainbrose
2. Waiting for tomorrow
3. Now
4. Girl can’t help it
5. I don’t like you anymore
6. Foolin’
7. Mother’s been a bad girl
8. Boowaah
9. Lucky
10. WTC
11. Sorry, Baby
12. Number in my phone
13. Call me when you have a clue
14. No Substance
15. Love Experiment
16. Turn of the screw
17. To the day I die
18. Walk on, Yeah
19. Accountable
20. There’s no way
21. Ever
22. Thinkin’ about her

IAN SWEET Releases Video for New Single ‘FIGHT’

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IAN SWEET Releases Video for New Single ‘FIGHT’

IAN SWEET is back with a new single called ‘FIGHT’. Following last year’s ‘f*ckthat’, the track arrives with an accompanying video directed by Lucy Sandler. Watch and listen below.

Talking about the new song in a press release, Jilian Medford said: “Spending everyday with someone, doing everything together, not knowing if the world was going to end. Leaning on someone with such heaviness, putting our entire weight and being onto each other because it’s all we had. The song plays into both the monotony of the relationship and the catastrophe that I went through after it ended. I felt so content in the relationship but then my entire world fell apart when it ended and I didn’t know how to pick myself back up and move forward.”

Sandler added: “I can only describe making ‘FIGHT’ as a true celebration, a giant family affair. By the end of the day all our friends became friends, the bar owners were taking shots with everyone, and Jilian got to crowd surf which made me tear up because she was so happy. I just wanted to capture the rawness and excited vulnerability that comes with a karaoke performance.”

‘FIGHT’ is set to appear on a forthcoming EP called Star Stuff. Medford released her third studio album as IAN SWEET, Show Me How You Disappear, last year via Polyvinyl.

Kamikaze Nurse Share New Single ‘Pet Meds’

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Kamikaze Nurse Share New Single ‘Pet Meds’

Vancouver noise-pop outift Kamikaze Nurse have released a new single, ‘Pet Meds’. It comes ahead of their new album Stimuloso, which is out on June 3 via Mint Records. Check it out below.

“‘Pet Meds’ was inspired by a wild road trip told to John by his friend Pete,” the band explained in a statement. “Sonya and KC interpreted the story as their own kinky road trip as ‘Two Hot Rock Chicks Listening to Neu’ looking for a good mechanic and getting caught in a psychosexual transmogrification along the way.”

Stimuloso will include the previously shared tracks ‘Come From Wood’ and ‘Boom Josie’.

Object of Affection Unveil Video for New Song ‘Through and Through’

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Object of Affection Unveil Video for New Song ‘Through and Through’

Los Angeles-based quintet Object of Affection have dropped a new single, ‘Through and Through’, alongside an accompanying video. It’s out via Suicide Squeeze Records as part of the label’s Pinks and Purples singles series. Check out the Jai Love-directed video below.

‘Through and Through’ is a story about the challenges of commitment,” vocalist Colin Knight told FLOOD Magazine. “A compromise to your own convictions for the destination of devotion could kill you if you let it. It’s difficult to survive, so we abandon love quickly and often. We take cues from the minimalism of our idols and translate some of this raw emotion to the 8-track and mix it ourselves in our bedroom. We later recruited the almighty Maurizio Baggio for mastering duties as we have done in the past. If you are partial to maudlin guitar choruses bookended by an actual trash can lid cymbal, please give our new single a listen.”

Object of Affection shared their self-titled debut EP in 2020, following it up with the standalone track ‘Night + Day’.

Foyer Red Release New Single ‘Flipper’

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Foyer Red Release New Single ‘Flipper’

Brooklyn’s Foyer Red have shared a new single, ‘Flipper’, their first new music since their 2021 debut EP Zigzag Wombat. The band recorded the track with Jonathan Schenke (Snail Mail, Parquet Courts, Liars, The Drums), and you can listen to it below.

“‘Flipper’ is a song we’ve been playing around with for a while now, but has more recently grown into itself,” lead singer Elana Riordan explained in a press release. “The song is kind of disjointed in its short, disconnected sections and in the way its subject vacillates between “reality” and a dreamt-up post-apocalyptic world. It takes on a satirical persona who drones on dramatically about hunger; the kind of silly girl (me) who goes to the bodega to buy more rolling papers and hangs out for a long while looking at snacks, waiting for something to happen. When I see the ending of the song, it is rust-red desert; it is cracked, scorched Earth, with yet again, no consumables! In its big, chaotic ending, the song’s narrator finds rage and strength, in a way that will protect her for millions of years.”

ghost orchard Covers Taylor Swift’s ‘invisible string’

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ghost orchard Covers Taylor Swift’s ‘invisible string’

ghost orchard, the recording project of Sam Hall, has signed to Winspear, marking the announcement with a cover of Taylor Swift’s folklore track ‘invisible string’. Listen to it below.

“sometimes doing a cover is a nice sort of palette cleanser in between projects. something light and loose you know?,” Hall remarked in a statement. “i don’t do them often, but i’ve loved and resonated with this song for a long time so it felt right. a nice kind of shift in perspective away from the projects i was working on at the time. ended up throwing the cover together in a day in my room late last fall – and everything just kinda fell in place. thanks taylor!”

ghost orchard released his first two albums, poppy and bliss, in 2016 via Orchid Tapes. His most recent record, bunny, followed in 2019.

Goose Share Video for New Song ‘Arrow’

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Goose Share Video for New Song ‘Arrow’

Connecticut band Goose have released a new single called ‘Arrow’. It’s lifted from their forthcoming full-length Dripfield, following the previously unveiled singles ‘Hungersite’, ‘Borne’, and the title track. Check out Cale Potts’ video for ‘Arrow’ below.

“‘Arrow’ has always been a puzzle for us,” the band’s Peter Anspach commented in a press release. “It took us months of messing with the arrangement to finally dial it in. And then in classic ‘Arrow’ form, once we hit the studio, it changed it again. The resulting version was created the day we recorded it and was one of most exciting days for us all. During the opening hits, we all took pots and pans from the kitchen and just dropped them on the ground of the studio to create a wilder, more outrageous impact.”

Dripfield is scheduled for release on June 24.

Built to Spill Release New Song ‘Understood’

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Built to Spill Release New Song ‘Understood’

‘Understood’ is the latest single to be released from Built to Spill’s upcoming LP When the Wind Forgets Your Name, the band’s first for new label Sub Pop. They previously shared ‘Gonna Lose’ to accompany the album’s announcement. The new track is inspired by Evel Knievel’s failed canyon jump in frontman Doug Martsch’s hometown of Twin Falls, Idaho. Listen to it below.

Martsch produced When the Wind Forgets Your Name, which he mixed with Lê Almeida and João Casaes (of the Brazilian band Oruã) and Josh Lewis. It’s set for release on September 9.

VR Games are Getting More Popular In 2022 – Here’s What You Need To Know

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VR Games are Getting More Popular In 2022 – Here’s What You Need To Know

It seems like only yesterday that virtual reality (VR) gaming was nothing more than a pipe dream. However, in the short space of just a few years, VR has gone from being an unknown quantity to one of the most popular and fastest-growing forms of entertainment around. 2022 looks set to be another banner year for VR gaming, with several high-profile titles scheduled for release. Let’s take a look at some of the most anticipated VR games coming out in 2022 and how this technology will advance.

How VR Works

Virtual reality technology immerses users in a computer-generated environment that gives them a realistic experience of being in another place. This is made possible by special headsets that provide stereoscopic displays (two images, one for each eye) and head tracking, which allows the user’s movements to be tracked in 3D space. Coupled with high-quality audio, this can create a very believable illusion of being transported to another world, which enhances your VR experience significantly. Additionally, some VR headsets also come with hand controllers that further immerse you in the game by allowing you to interact with objects in the virtual world.

VR Gaming Recap

The origins of virtual reality gaming can be traced back to the 1960s when Morton Heilig, considered the “father” of VR, created the Sensorama Simulator. This was a machine that used a stereoscopic display, fans, smells, and stereo sound to give users an immersive experience. However, it wasn’t until the 1990s that VR gaming began to take off in earnest with the release of popular titles such as Doom 3D and Quake. The early 2000s saw a renewed interest in VR gaming with the release of the first commercially successful VR headset, the Nintendo Virtual Boy. Unfortunately, this device was ahead of its time and failed to gain widespread adoption. It wasn’t until 2016 that VR gaming took off with the release of the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, which are now considered the two leading VR platforms. Since then, VR gaming has gone from strength to strength, with new titles and experiences being released regularly.

The Benefits of VR Gaming

There are many reasons why VR gaming is becoming more popular. Firstly, it’s an incredibly immersive way to play games, and thanks to the latest technology, it’s getting better all the time. Secondly, it’s a great way to socialize and connect with other people, even if they’re not in the same room as you. Thirdly, it’s a great workout! You might not think of video games as being particularly active, but playing them in VR can give you quite a workout. Finally, VR is just plain fun! It’s a great way to escape the real world for a while and experience something new. For example, you could be flying through the air one minute and swimming with dolphins the next. However, there are also some potential drawbacks to VR gaming that you should be aware of. Firstly, it can be quite expensive to get started, as you’ll need to buy a VR headset and potentially some other equipment as well. Additionally, some people find VR headsets uncomfortable to wear for long periods, so you might want to take breaks if you start to feel uncomfortable.

Why People Love VR Games

There are many reasons why people love VR games, but the immersive experience is undoubtedly one of the biggest draws. When you put on a VR headset, you’re transported into the game world in a way that’s simply not possible with traditional gaming. You can explore new environments, meet new people, and have incredible experiences that you’ll never forget. Additionally, VR gaming is a great workout! You might not think of video games as being particularly active, but playing them in VR can give you quite a workout. For example, you could be flying through the air one minute and swimming with dolphins the next.

What’s Next for VR Gaming?

The future of VR gaming is looking very bright, with several high-profile titles scheduled for release in 2022. Some of the most anticipated VR games coming out next year include “Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR”, “Resident Evil 7: Biohazard”, and “Star Wars: Battlefront II”. In addition, there are many other exciting VR games in development, so it’s safe to say that the best is yet to come. These games are popular because they’re incredibly immersive and offer a unique gaming experience that you can’t get anywhere else. If you’re looking for something new and exciting to play, VR is worth checking out.

VR gaming is becoming more popular for many reasons. It’s an immersive way to play games, it’s a great workout, and it’s just plain fun. However, it can be expensive to get started, and you might become too immersed in the game if you’re not careful. Nevertheless, VR gaming is worth checking out if you’re looking for something new and exciting to play.

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